Guantanamo Bay held hundreds of people - a large proportion of them not even particularly important people, some of them completely randomly swept up - with no

Guantanamo Bay held hundreds of people - a large proportion of them not even particularly important people, some of them completely randomly swept up - with no legal rights, under a Kafkaesque interpretation of the law. > essentially a POW camp The US government refused to treat people in Guantanamo Bay as POWs. That's why they called them "enemy combatants." POWs have rights. Guantanamo Bay itself was only a tiny part of the larger War on Terror. The US ran prison camps scattered throughout the world, in which it tortured prisoners. The US kidnapped civilians and flew them to secret prisons, or to be tortured by allied countries like Egypt. One person was even kidnapped by American intelligence off the streets of Milan. In Iraq, the US worked with Shiite militias that tortured and killed large numbers of people suspected of being sympathetic to the insurgency. The US itself ran prisons like Abu Ghraib, in which prisoners were tortured. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died in Iraq, as a result of the illegal invasion. No senior figure involved in these crimes was prosecuted. So when the US government suddenly develops a conscience, consider me skeptical.